Quote from: Potato Chips on September 29, 2024, 10:17:10 PM

Quote from: Rruchi man on September 29, 2024, 04:48:04 PM

OP should be careful on Reddit of people who may claim to be locals just to gain trust. There are still lots of scammers there.

Yup. Sadly, many crypto communities I've been in is infested with scammers lol e.g. those at reddit, twitter, tg, discord. I'm glad it is less crazy in bitcointalk lol.

Reddit has always been suspicious and sketchy even twitter (X). It is full of scammers in the marketplace. But what can we expect from crypto communities? Of course they will go where there are most likely their possible targets to be.

But I guess since bitcointalk does not have much scammers is because it is less mainstream than the other platforms you mentioned meaning only those really interested in bitcoin/crypto know about this platform.

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My advise it to not entertain DMs from randoms and just keep the discussion in public-- start a thread. This way, someone slippin' a scam trick will most likely be downvoted to oblivion and/or will be called out.

Yup and always check their account. It could be pretty obvious if one is a scammer just by looking at the date the account was made. Most likely new accounts are fake and were just created to do some scamming.